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Joe Volk has more than three decades of experience working for peace and social justice. He played a key role in founding the Iraq Working Group and has served as a leader in the Washington Interreligious Staff Committee. He has lobbied Congress to support peaceful prevention of deadly conflict, nuclear disarmament, peace in Iraq, and many other issues. He is a past chair and current member of the Steering Committee of the US Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL). He is a board member of Africa Action and The Justice Project (a veterans’ organization), and also serves on the Corporation Committee of Haverford College and on the Wilmington College Board of Trustees. He serves on the advisory council of Foreign Policy in Focus, a think-tank without walls. Prior to joining FCNL in 1990, Joe worked 18 years for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and served as its National Secretary for Peace Education from 1982 to 1990. In February 2007, he participated in a delegation of U.S. religious leaders that traveled to Iran and met with a variety of governmental, academic, and religious leaders in an effort to build intercultural and interreligious understanding during a time of great tension between the U.S. and Iranian governments. In the mid-1960s and early ‘70s, he taught junior high and high school in Ohio (West Chester) and Maine (Bingham). He began a career in the peace movement when in 1967 he refused a deferment from the draft and went into the Army to try to organize troops to refuse deployment to Vietnam. In 1968, he refused to go with his mechanized cavalry unit to Vietnam. Although convicted in a court martial on AWOL charges, he received an honorable discharge after doing a short time in an Army stockade. A native of Blanchester, OH, he has a BA degree from Miami University (OH) in comparative religions. He resides with his wife, Beth, in Arlington, VA, and commutes to work by bicycle. Their three children -- now adults -- reside in California and Oregon. FCNL is a nonpartisan, Quaker lobby in the public interest and is the first registered national religious lobby in the U.S. FCNL was founded in 1943 to bring the spiritual values of Friends into the public policy process. It currently represents 26 yearly meetings of the Religious Society of Friends. Read the Carey Memorial Lecture Joe gave Baltimore Yearly Meeting this year.
Reviewed: 10/17/2007 |
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